The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 39-42, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 67 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 63 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 85 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.
Tempo goes 85, 100, 115 and 130 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.
PRACTISE THIS BEAT →A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 33, 35, 39-42 and 60-61, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
67 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.